Joshua Cooper Ramo living
Author of The Seventh Sense, The Age of the Unthinkable, vice chairman and co-chief executive of Kissinger Associates
1968- (56)
Joi Ito living
managing partner of Neoteny, co-founder at Digital Garage, PSINet Japan, Infoseek Japan, president of Chiba Institute of Technology, previously chair/CEO of Creative Commons, director of MIT Media Lab from 2011-2019, entrepreneur aka Joi Eto, venture capitalist, crypto investor, co-founder of Safecast after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, director at Sony, NY Times, the Open Source Initiative, author of Freesouls (2008), Whiplash (2016)
1966- (58)
joi.ito.com
Barack Obama living
44th President of the United States from 2009-2017, first black president of America, documentary filmmaker at Higher Ground Productions, Marxist lecturer at Chicago University
1961- (63)
barackobama.com
David Rubenstein living
Billionaire financier, lawyer, attorney, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since 2017, co-founder and co-chairman of Carlyle Group private equity firm, interviewer, podcaster on The David Rubenstein Show, author of The American Story, How to Lead, The American Experiement, How to Invest, chairman of Duke University, Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
1949- (75)
cfr.org
Howard S. Marks living
billionaire value investor, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management (1995) private equity firm, vulture capitalist of distressed companies, formerly at TCW Group from 1985-1995, author of The Most Important Thing, Mastering the Market Cycle
1946- (78)
oaktreecapital.com
Philip Giraldi living
Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, security columnist, writer, former CIA intelligence officer, ani
1946- (78)
David G. Booth living
Billionaire, mutual funds, financier, stock trader, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981
1945- (79)
dimensional.com
Bert Cohler
Professor, psychologist, psychoanalyst
1938-2012 (74)
humdev.uchicago.edu
James Q. Wilson
Criminologist, behaviorist, political scientist, pioneer in criminology and the broken windows theory of civil disorder and anti-socialism
1931-2012 (81)
Samuel P. Huntington
American historian, academic scholar, advisor, professor, political scientist, author of political theory "The Clash of Civilizations", director of the Harvard Center of International Affairs, linked to PW Botha in the Apartheid of South Africa, coined the term the "Davos Men"
1927-2008 (81)
Albert D. Biderman
Psychologist, Chart of Coercion of 1956, pioneer in coercive methods psychology and enforcing compliance, co-author of The Manipulation of Human Behavior
1923-2003 (80)
Jay Pritzker
entrepreneur, co-founder of the Marmon Group, co-founder and patriarch of the Hyatt family dynasty
1922-1999 (77)
Donald Davidson
Cartesian philosopher, mathematician
1917-2003 (86)
britannica.com
Bernice Neugarten
Psychologist, biological clock ticking, aging studies, social clock theory, midlife crisis, menopause
1916-2001 (85)
encyclopedia.com
Saul Bellow
Pulitzer Prize writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, novelist, author of Ravelstein, Letters
1915-2005 (90)
Dr. Anatol Rapoport
Mathematician, psychologist, pioneer in mathematical biology, game theory, general systems theory, author of The Origins of Violence, Fights Games and Debates
1911-2007 (96)
Leo Strauss
political philosopher, father of neoconservatism
1899-1973 (74)
Dr. Roger J. Williams, Ph.D.
Biochemist, pioneer in vitamins, Genetotrophic disease, human nutrionist, NutriCircles, scientific discovery of vitamin B6, folic acid, avidin, pantothenic acid, lipoic acid
1893-1988 (95)
doctoryourself.com
Wesley C. Mitchell
Economist, founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
1874-1948 (74)
britannica.com
John Dewey
Educator, teacher, writer, philosopher, pioneer in pragmatism, socialist, psychologist, pedagogical theories, father of progressive education in the United States, modern schools, known for the Dewey decimal system, president of the Fabian Socialist League for Industrial Democracy (LID)
1859-1952 (93)
britannica.com
J.J. Mearsheimer
Marxist political scientist, politics, pioneer in offensive realism, author of The Israel Lobby, Why Leaders Lie
mearsheimer.com
Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen
Roman art scholar of ancient wall paintings, art historian, classical archaeologist aka Baron von Blanckenhagen, fled to East Germany during the Bolshevik Revolution, founder of the Allasch distillery for Mentzendorff Kümmel, awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981
Jeff Wernick
Angel investor in Parler, seed funding, seed investors, Bitcoin enthusiast, crypto enthusiast
foxbusiness.com
Jacob A. Frenkel
Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Group of Thirty (G30), former chairman of JPMorgan Chase International from 2009-2019, vice chairman of AIG from 2004-2009, chairman of Merrill Lynch International from 2000-2004, governor of the Bank of Israel from 1991-2000, director of research at IMF from 1987-1991
group30.org
Gary J. Schmitt
Political activist, author of Silent Warfare, president of the New Citizenship Project, executive director of the Project for the New American Century from 1998-2005
aei.org
Bob Fabry
Computer programmer, founder of Computer Systems Research Group (with DARPA funding), inventor of AT&T Unix file system